What's New

Mobile Wireless Labs

We now have 30 laptop computers in 2 rolling carts, with wireless network access points. These can be used as classroom labs...bring the lab to your class, not your class to the lab...or can be checked out to individuals. To find out more, click here.

Spyware

How to protect your computer from spyware, from Microsoft.

Spyware removal tools:

Microsoft has recently announced the release of their own spyware removal too. It is available from the Windows update site. From within IE, click Tools > Windows Update to get it or find out more.

Phishing Schemes

Watch this video from Microsoft explaining what to do about Phishing schemes--that is, schemes to fraudulently steal your electronic identity over the web.

These are becoming common in Palomar email. Never reply with personal information or Palomar credit card or other identifying numbers to emails that look legitimate. Legitimate banks will not ask for personal information via email.

How to report to a Phishing Scam

Training

Microsoft is offering free online training for the Office 2003 family of Products, including free beginner's training.

Academic Technology Fall 2005 Training Schedule has been announced. We will be offering a full schedule of educational software instruction in Blackboard, FrontPage, PowerPoint, Producer, Photoshop, Acrobat, and other web technologies.

The windows media player version 10 is now available...and worth it. Release date was Sept. 2. The menus finally make sense ("rip," "burn," "library," "sync"...), and performance is unequaled. Some problems have been reported, but overall it seems to work even better than version 9. The download/install works fine on-campus. Click here for the Windows media web site.

Blackboard at Palomar

We have upgraded to Blackboard 6.1, and Blackboard now lives on a new, much faster server. So what's new? Click here.

New CVC Online Training Announced
Click here for details and registration links for the new California Virtual Campus online training available to faculty and staff.

To view descriptions for and/or register for any of the following training please visit:
http://training.cvc4.org/train

CCC Confer

Meet with your colleagues or students online! You can schedule an online meeting using CCC Confer, a means of using Internet and a phone bridge to connect from 2 to 100 participants. You can even receive your training online. Click here to find out more.

Hot Potatoes

Version 6 of Hot Potatoes--a free tool for creating interactive web quizzes--is now available. Click here to download. For more information about Hot Potatoes, see our sample quizzes, or call Terry Gray, ext. 2877, or write tgray@palomar.edu.

Incorporate Rich Media into your online materials -- and it's free!

Click here to find out how to use Microsoft Producer to deliver "rich media" presentations to your students. Producer allows you to easily synchronize video, audio, powerpoint slides, html, or other documents and publish to the web, CD, or a disk location.

Office 2003 & FrontPage 2003 Available

Office 2003 Pro and FrontPage 2003 are now available to Faculty/Staff purchase from the FCCC. Click here, to go to the CollegeBuys web site, and then click on the Faculty and Staff link to reach the order form.

Dell Hardware

Dell Computers for Faculty, Staff and Students. As part of Dell’s educational computing initiative, Palomar College students, faculty, and staff may now privately purchase Dell computers at substantial discounts from retail prices. Please visit the Business Services, Purchasing, or Information Services web pages for links to the Dell direct sales site.

Click here to directly access the Dell “Palomar College Student Computing Initiative” web page.

The Online College

Blackboard Upgrade - Version 6.1 of the Blackboard Learning System is now available for the use of faculty, staff and students at Palomar College. Click here for more information on this upgrade.

We have a new interface to the online college at http://www.palomar.edu/pconline.

New tutorials on How to Login, how to change personal information, and how to use the digital drop box have been added to help students with the Blackboard system.

We have installed a new version of Blackboard, the courseware management system used to present classes online. To find out more about the online college, go to:

http://www.palomar.edu/at/atonlinecollege.htm

District Web Site

A new design, and many new technologies, have been adopted for the District web site. See the new look at http://www.palomar.edu. There is a "Web Presence Manual" now available as part of the overall Graphics Standards manual, at http://www.palomar.edu/guidelines/manual. The new college logos are available at http://www.palomar.edu/guidelines/logos. Templates for individual use are available at http://www.palomar.edu/guidelines/templates.

AT Lab News

Classroom Reservations. The AT Classroom, which contains 30 Dell computers, may be reserved by faculty for their classes by using our on-line reservation form no later than one day in advance of the desired time period. Please check the AT Calendar for availability of the classroom. Additional questions can be directed to Myrna Valencia or Daniel Jani at x2656.

We are accepting reservations for the new classroom lab (located where the current tutorial area is) for Fall 2005.